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England for Astej- sagittifolins and a few other species. The 

 limestone region about North Pownal produces most of the rare 

 plants but the extensive bogs in the eastern part of the town offer 

 much of interest to botanical collectors. The headquarters for 

 the meeting will be at the Hotel Glenwood, North Pownal, where 

 members and their friends will assemble on the evening of July i. 

 Benjamin Davis Gilbert, well known as an amateur student of 

 the ferns, died at his home in Clayville, New York, on June 3, in 

 the 72d year of his age. Mr. Gilbert was a graduate of Hamil- 

 ton College in the class of 1857. From i860 to 1876 he was 

 engaged in the book trade in Utica,N. Y., and from 1877 to 1888 

 he was connected with the Utica Morning Herald, during much 

 of this time as as literary editor and later as agricultural editor. 

 Between 1892 and 1897 he was secretary of the New York State 

 Dairymen's Association and edited its annual reports. Mr. Gil- 

 bert's interest in ferns began in early life. In addition to his per- 

 sonal collections in the United States, he had gathered ferns in 

 Martinique, St. Thomas, Jamaica, and Bermuda. His botanical 

 papers were published chiefly in the Fern Bulletin and in the 

 Biilletin of the Torrey Botanical Chib. 



